There’s debates over whether Pittsburghese is actually different from Appalachian and whether central Pennsylvania’s Midland English really a different dialect than Philadelphia’s Atlantic ...

Fewer and fewer people in south-central Pennsylvania speak the dialect because it is not passed down. David said he is attempting to get the younger population interested in the dialect.

Her accent seems so authentic that strangers have asked what part of Jamaica she’s from. But Kirsten Keys has no connection to Jamaica. And the lifelong Harrisburg resident had no unusual accent ...